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Red
Lights
10 October 2005
Cert: 15 - France -2004
Dir: Cédric Kahn 105 mins
Abandoned by his prim wife, Darroussin seeks solace in a roadside
bar. Next morning, he shifts from wounded indignation to remorseful
panic as he realises his wife has gone missing.
A
Good Woman
24 October 2005
Cert: PG - UK - 2004
Dir: Michael Barker 93 mins
Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan moves to sunny, 1930s
Amalfi. Here swells swill cocktails and wax wittily while happy
newlywed Margaret Windermere (Johansson) struggles with the knowledge
that her husband (Umbers) has succumbed to a jaded adventuress (Hunt).
I'm
not Scared
7 November 2005
Cert: 15 - Italy/Spain - 2002
Dir: Gabriele Salvatores 101 mins
A nine year-old boy growing up in southern Italy in the late 1970s
discovers another young boy, hidden in a hole in the ground by the
side of a disused farmhouse. A series of startling revelations involving
the boy’s family and the local community follow, changing the
young Sicilian’s life forever.
Downfall
21 November 2005
Cert: 15 - Germany/Italy - 2004
Dir: Oliver Hirschbiegel 127 mins
In 1945, as Berlin falls to the Russians, Adolf Hitler (Ganz) and
his inner circle retreat to a bunker for a futile last stand. Hitler's
secretary Traudl (Lara) looks on as the Führer veers between
depression and delusion and finally marries his long-term girlfriend,
Eva Braun (Köhler), before putting a bullet in his brain...
Sideways
5 December 2005
Cert: 15 - USA - 2004
Dir: Alexander Payne 127 mins
Miles is a failed writer living a meager existence in San Diego
as an English teacher. With his career seemingly fading and the
fate of a book hinging on a publisher's decision, Miles is depressed
with himself and what he hasn't achieved. Jack is a television actor
whom some recognize but not many do, as if he were a minor actor
who got a taste of success. With his best friend Miles, the two
embark on a road trip through California's wine country. Miles wants
to give his friend a nice sendoff before married life, while Jack
simply wants to have a fling beforehand. As they're both nearing
middle age with not much to show for it, the two will explore the
vineyards while ultimately searching for their identities
Untold
Scandal
19 December 2005
Cert: 18 - Korean - 2003
Dir: Jae-yong Lee 124 mins
Based on the novel 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses,' this film is set
in aristocratic 18th-century Korea at the end of the Chosun Dynasty.
The irresistible temptress Lady Cho asks her cad of a younger cousin,
Jo-won, to deflower the innocent young Soh-ok, who is to become
her husband's concubine. But, his attentions soon shift to the graceful
and aloof Lady Sook, who lives according to her convictions as a
Catholic. Jo-won becomes obsessed with seducing this chaste woman
who has remained celibate for nine years since her husband's death.
However, conquering the most virtuous woman in the land proves to
be more difficult than Chosun's notorious playboy expects.
A
Common Thread
9 January 2006
Cert: 12A - France - 2004
Dir: Éléonore Faucher 88 mins
Although bound by a passion for needlework, pregnant teenager Lola
Naymark and grieving mother Ariane Ascaride have little else in
common. Yet as they collaborate on a series of intricate designs,
their opposites begin to attract and each comes to a better understanding
of their unwanted situations.
The
Consequences of Love
23 January 2006
Cert: 15 - Italy - 2004
Dir: Paolo Sorrentino 100 mins
Titta (Toni Servillo) is a 50-year-old man living quietly in a Swiss
hotel with no occupation except smoking and drinking at the bar.
But an explosive incident reveals him to be a criminal in hiding
as his difficult and dangerous past finally catches up with him.
Hotel Rwanda
6 February 2006
Cert: 12 - UK/SA - 2004
Dir: Terry George 121 mins
Kigali, Rwanda, 1994. When the Hutu president is killed by Tutsi
rebels, Hutu extremists take to the streets with machetes, slaughtering
every Tutsi they see. Meanwhile, Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle)
finds the four-star hotel he manages turned into an impromptu refugee
camp. Only his quick thinking can keep its 1,200 inhabitants alive.
My
Summer of Love
20 February 2006
Cert: 15 - UK - 2004
Dir: Pawel Pawlikowski 86 mins
Mona (Press), a disillusioned, working-class teenager, finds an
unlikely ally in the shape of Tamsin (Blunt), a rich girl struggling
to get over the death of her sister. What starts out as an innocent
friendship, however, quickly spills into something more intense
— causing conflict between Mona and her devoutly religious
brother (Considine).
Machuca
6 March 2006
Cert: 15 - UK/Spain - 2004
Dir: Andres Wood 121 mins
The most successful picture in Chilean history has been credited
by some with breaking the spell that General Pinochet had exerted
over his nation for 30 years. Timid bourgeois Matias Quer’s
friendship with shanty-dwelling Ariel Mateluna and his sassy cousin
Manuela Martelli is undoubtedly affecting and is persuasively enacted
by the young debutants.
Inside
I'm Dancing
20 March 2006
Cert: 15 - Ireland - 2004
Dir: Damien O' Donnell 90 mins
Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident
of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the
formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory
O'Shea moves in. Michael is stunned to discover that fast talking
Rory, who can move only his right hand, can understand his almost
unintelligible speech. Rory's dynamic and rebellious nature soon
sparks a flame in Michael, introducing him to a whole new world
outside of Carrigmore.
Torrelemenos
'73
3 April 2006
Cert: 15 - Spain/Denmark - 2003
Dir: Pablo berger 93 mins
Alfredo Lopez is a tired encyclopedia salesman, and Carmen is his
faithful wife. The lives of this married couple change forever when
the Montoya publishing house, in which Alfredo works, makes a proposal
to them to make erotic films that will sold in the Scandinavian
countries, under the guise of being a false encyclopedia about reproduction.
Unknown to them both, Carmen has become an adult film star in the
Northern countries, and a Danish crew flies in to help Alfredo make
an Ingmar Bergman inspired feature film called 'Torremolinos 73.'
Instead of a career in show business, Carmen is eager to have a
baby, and the tension between the artist and his muse grows.
Japanese
Story
24 April 2006
Cert: 15 - Australia - 2003
Dir: Sue Brooks 107 mins
Against the background of an Australian desert landscape, so much
space and so few people, Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese
businessman, play out a story of human inconsequence in the face
of the blistering universe. The end of the journey leaves no-one
capable of going back to where they started from.
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